Best place to hit US Mainland?

[smashmode]

..Where it would cause minimal loss of life/property?

and also where is the best place Dennis can go...where it goes that might weaken it.

and prediction that it will hit there?

[dhweather]

Washington DC.

[Brent]

The area between Tallahassee and Cedar Key... very few people live there.

Of course, it would need to be moving NE so it didn't hammer the FL West Coast on the way north.

[Mississippi Storm Magnet]

Just south of Brownsville, TX into Mexico. Low population.

[LilNoles2005]

Brent, screw that, I live there!

[smashmode]

I remember the last series of hurricanes..there was a stretch on the florida panhandle..that was pretty scarce in terms of population.

The mobile/pensacola region would suck butt.

[Brent]

Brent, screw that, I live there!

East of you... Taylor and Dixie Counties...

[soonertwister]

The best place for a hurricane to strike in the United States is a county to the west of southern South Padre Island.

It's a big free-range cattle grazing county with not much more than 1,000 people in the whole county. Of the several hundred who aren't already rich, they are so tough, you couldn't kill them with a cement mixer on steroids.

Of course, the assumption is made that no hurricanes are likely to hit Alaska.

[AL Chili Pepper]

King Ranch TX, a county unto it's own. Just move the horses first.

[mtm4319]

The best place for a hurricane to strike in the United States is a county to the west of southern South Padre Island.

It's a big free-range cattle grazing county with not much more than 1,000 people in the whole county. Of the several hundred who aren't already rich, they are so tough, you couldn't kill them with a cement mixer on steroids.

Hurricane Bret hit that area in 1999, in fact.

[smashmode]

of course the worst case sceniro would be if Dennis skirts the west coast of florida..

I remember when CHarley was going to slam Tampa..they had those flood maps of tampa/st pete..and it was cat 4..pretty much everything would have been under water.

[birdwomn]

I dunno...There are so many really bad scenarios with this storm...Tampa Bay would be bad, Pensacola/Mobile would be bad, New Orleans would be bad....there really isn't a good spot...that cattle land in TX is the best palce I can think of...either that or spinning into nothingness....

[sprink52]

The absolute worse spot would be New Orleans. The cost in lives lost and the economic/ecological impct would exceed 100 billion dollars.

[Swimdude]

Hmmm best spot. Maine. They don't get hurricanes there very often. And by the time Dennis made it up there, the water temps would be below 70 degrees - and he'd be no more than a tropical storm!

[EarthStormFire]

The best place would be a cat 5 and new york. Tobad it wont happen.

J/K you all. The best place with be were no one lives.

[timNms]

IMO there is no "best" place for him to strike the US. No matter where he makes landfall, someone is going to be affected. Doesn't matter if the population is 1 or 1,000,000. If one life is lost, then our country has suffered a big blow. If one person loses their home because of this storm, it may not affect me or you, but to them, that's a big loss.

It's easy for us to get caught up in the excitement of hurricanes, but we have to remember that no matter where they go, unless it's out to sea, someone suffers because of them.